One Foot in Eden (edition 2011)

by Ron Rash

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Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.… (more)

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Fantastic novel. This is what a novel is supposed to be. Rash is one of the best writers we have. Enjoy him. (

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MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |

Rash definitely has a way with spinning a yarn of a story. I always feel like I'm part of the places he writes about, like I've lived in those mountains my whole life. His stories have a way of sticking with you and One Foot in Eden is no different. (

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Chanicole | Jul 6, 2023 |

Beautifully rendered descriptions of Southern landscape and atmosphere. Heat and humidity and cicadas. Tragic. Beautiful. Lovely. (

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Desiree_Reads | Jun 23, 2022 |

Set in upstate South Carolina, Rash’s debut novel is as harsh and haunting as the landscape he writes about. The town troublemaker disappears and Sheriff Will Alexander knows in his bones that the man has been murdered but he can’t even find the body. Exploring ties to family, community, and the land, Rash’s book is perfectly atmospheric and relevant to me as a southern Appalachian woman with roots in the area going back many generations. (

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JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 20, 2021 |

My first Ron Rash book and it won't be my last! Quite the storyteller, really brings his characters to life - still thinking about some of them. Haunting tale, beautifully written. (

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Reinharez, Isabelle	Traduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Gallimard, Folio (6623)

Le livre de poche (32043)

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Un pied au paradis by Michele Foletti

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Independent Publisher Book Awards (Finalist – General Fiction – 2003)

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One Foot in Eden

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2002-10 (1e édition originale américaine, Picador)

2009-08-25 (1e traduction et édition française, Editions du Masque)

2011-01-05 (Réédition française, Le livre de poche, Librairie générale française)

2019-03-21 (Réédition française, Folio, Gallimard)

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Billy Holcombe (Le père)

Amy Boone-Hocombe (L'épouse)

Isaac Holcombe (Le fils)

Will Alexander (Le shérif)

Holland Winchester (L'ancien combattant de Corée disparu= (L'ancien combattant de Corée disparu=)

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South Carolina, USA

Appalachian Mountains

Appalachia, USA

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Epigraph

One foot in Eden still, I stand
And look across the other land.
The world's great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate.

—Edwin Muir

Dedication

For Bill Koon

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There had been trouble in the upper part of the county at a honky-tonk called The Borderline, and Bobby had come by the house because he didn't want to go up there alone.

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Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

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